“Talkin’ Tobacco” begins with the television news show Face the Press interviewing Mr. Tobacco, a tobacco plant, to discuss a number of aspects of tobacco-use by humans. Mr. Tobacco goes back into history and dramatizes such topics as how tobacco was first discovered in the new world and brought back to Europe, how the cigarette-rolling machine increased smoking significantly at the turn of the century, how the movie industry of the 1940s glamorized tobacco use, and how doctors try to correct the destructive effects of chewing tobacco.
